They began the difficult descent of the mountain's south face.
The plane was making its final descent.
The space capsule used parachutes to slow its descent.
The engines failed on the plane's descent to Newark.
I made a slow and painful descent down the stairs.
the descent from the top of the mountain
his descent into alcoholism
The plane began its gentle descent to Narita.
We slowed the balloon's rate of descent.
She claims direct descent from Queen Victoria.
Most European languages have a common descent.
groups sharing common descent
She is Hungarian by descent.
He claims to have traced descent from Christopher Columbus.
Humans and other apes followed separate lines of descent from a common ancestor.
She is of mixed European and African descent.